The Little Magazine That Defied American Censorship

Imposing censorship is, the science-fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein once remarked, “like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can’t eat steak.” In Adam Morgan’s A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature, a young girl stands in for the baby, and modernist literature, particularly James Joyce’s Ulysses, is the red meat. Morgan’s book is a biography of Margaret Caroline Anderson, founder of The Little Review...